Checking your blood pressure at home or a local pharmacy can be an effective way to stay proactive about your heart health.

Use this blood pressure chart to interpret your blood pressure readings and monitor this important heart health metric from home. Menu. Newsletters Search. Health Conditions. Wellness & Self-Care.

This chart provides a breakdown of the five main blood pressure categories to help you interpret your readings and understand what action may be necessary. Normal blood pressure is in a healthy range.

Here’s a quick refresher: the systolic pressure (the top number) is the force of your blood when your heart is actively ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, that speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (SCOS) can be used for cuffless blood ...

The results from our blood pressure chart should alert you to decide if your blood pressure is within normal range. Average Blood Pressure: For young people: 120/80 mmHg: For old people: ...

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The new cuffless devices promise to reveal a more complete picture of physiologic changes in blood pressure that cannot be picked up with spot measurements, and instead give a truer blood pressure ...

Now, there’s a new way doctors are getting a better idea of what your blood pressure really is. The old-fashioned way of putting your arm into a blood pressure cuff at the doctor’s office ...

If the 2017 criteria were applied nationwide, the increased use of medications would likely result in 62,000 more cases of abnormally low blood pressure, 32,000 cases of patients fainting, and ...